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...I am a qualified play therapist having received a Diploma in Non-Directive Play Therapy and I hold a Masters in Therapeutic Child Care.
LG was referred to me by her social worker, after her foster carer had reported that LG had displayed some worrying and confusing behaviours.
In September 2007 LG and her younger sister were accommodated. They have remained in foster care since then and have lived with the same foster carers.
The referral informed me that LG had witnessed domestic violence between her parents and excessive use of alcohol. It was thought that she may also have witnessed adults using drugs. The referral described occasions when LG’s carer found her very upset and crying silently. At these times it would take her foster carer a long time to soothe LG.
LG has suffered from traumatic losses in her first five years. Consequently her sense of trust has been severely shaken, as was her sense of a secure base. I hypothesised that LG would not only have suffered from the experiences of loss, domestic violence, physical abuse and neglect, but from emotional neglect and broken attachments.
After meeting with LG at her foster carer’s house 5 months ago, weekly play therapy sessions began. Throughout this time I have reviewed the therapy regularly with LG’s foster carer and regularly discussed the therapy with LG’s social worker.
LG uses every session to its fullest extent. There have been occasions when she found it very difficult to leave......

...How I value life may be different from people. For example, Hamlet, Armstrong, or the editors of Time magazine they have different point of views of life and how much it is worth. I value my life by making the best out of anything. I value my family a lot too, without them I don’t know what I would be. Friends are great but they come and go, family isn’t like that they are going to stick by you through better or worse. The most important thing in life is happiness. People should do whatever they want that makes them happy, blending in is good sometimes but they should think if what they’re doing is making them happy.
Hamlet views life as something bad. He talks about how life is extremely hard and how you have to go through a lot to get what you want which is happiness and being rich. Instead of going through all that suffering why not end your life and get rid of it all? Its sounds good at first but what stops us is the fear of what comes after death. Anyone who has crossed that line never comes back. In a way it’s true, sometimes there’s moments when life gets too hard you just want to end it. On the other hand, I disagree, because you should make life the best; only think the positive sides of it.
Lance Armstrong is more on the bright side. He says he would want to live life the fullest, and then have a fast death. No pain no nothing. But he also says the truth. Not always life is going to be great. People die it could be your parents, family, friends, etc....

...Article Critique - Adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy: Patient health education needs and views on group education
This paper evaluates a medical journal article entitled, “Adherence to ocular hypotensive therapy: Patient health education needs and views on group education,” by Waterman et.al. published on the Journal of Patient Preference and Adherence, Volume 7, pages 55-63, 2013. While the title is apparent to the clinicians on the topic that the article is looking at, it may be slightly challenging for the general public to understand the term "ocular hypotensive therapy" in the title as it was not explained anywhere in the article. The term may be phrased in a more understandable manner such as "therapy to reduce eye pressure" or "glaucoma therapy" as this article is from an open access medical journal focusing on patient preference and adherence, the general public who are interested in this topic will have access to it and they intend to understand and get useful information from the article. Therefore, the title should be as clear as possible to stimulate the interest of not only the clinicians but also the general public to encourage them to read. Nonetheless, after reading the article, the title is considered as precise and concise in reflecting the content of the work. As the title of the article suggests, the main issue discussed in the article was that as in other long-term conditions, there is a tendency in patients with glaucoma did not adhere to their......

...What does life means? Life, for me, is the most precious thing that everyone has the opportunity to have. According to Mother Teresa, “life is an opportunity; life is precious”. She gave life fifteen wonderful meanings but I totally admire the latter two simply because life is as precious as we are.
God given us this life we have now. No matter how hard or easy to handle it, we should treasure such a precious gift from God. Life is then priceless and freely given. We don’t need to demand for it. Life is just up there waiting for us. It’s only up to us if we claim it or not. Upon claiming it, how do we view life then? How should it be and why would it be? Do we need to be the same in viewing life or it would be our own choice? If I were to ask, it would be our choice. Life as I view it is like a book. No matter how quick you turn the pages, for you to learn, you would probably go back and read completely. In life, no matter how you want to escape from your problems, you would not be able to do it. Whether you like it or not, you need to face whatever your problem is. Just challenge yourself as life is full of challenges. Who would say that living is easy? Yes, it is happy to live. But life is a challenge and is not absolutely easy. Of course, to give up is not the solution. Life must go on no matter what happen. Lewis Carroll says that “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” So it’s better to just ride on it as life is also a journey. We do......

...Billy Durham
Instructor Josh Dohmen
Philosophy 1101-002
25 February 2013
Plato’s View on Life and How One Acquires Knowledge
Plato is a well-known, intellectual Athenian philosopher that was born into an aristocratic family. Due to his family’s wealth, Plato was able to receive some of best education available to Athenians. When Plato was a pupil, he became infatuated with his Sophist Socrates. Socrates was a Greek philosopher and he was known to preach endlessly about his ideas and theories to anyone that would listen. Plato’s most renowned work comes from his Five Dialogues. In two of Plato’s dialogues, Meno and Phaedo, Socrates is the protagonist and Plato uses his character to portray his philosophical views of life and how one can go about acquiring knowledge.
The Meno consists of a discussion between Socrates and his companion, Meno, in which Meno is trying to inquire information on whether “virtue can be taught? Or is it not teachable but the result of practice, or is it neither of these, but men possess it by nature or in some other way” (70a). In the beginning of the dialogue, Socrates asks Meno to define what virtue is and after numerous attempts, Socrates comes to realize that he himself is unclear on whether or not virtue can be taught so he suggests that they can seek out the answer together. Meno is puzzled because he doesn’t know how the two of them will search and acquire knowledge on virtue if they are both unfamiliar with the subject. Socrates’......

...Last class I learned about the Adlerian Therapy established by Alfred Adler, a man who struggled with the family members. Adler strived to overcome his conflicts within himself and with the society. His view towards the human nature was that people have unique views of ideal-self depending on their personal social interaction. He believed that people have life goal that they must achieve. The main difference between Adler and Freud was that Freud believed that as long as one could analyze oneself, through the insights one can find the cause of the conflict and be able to solve and even reestablish the personality. However, Adler believed that it is impossible to analyze because human beings are complicated and people are integrated and completed. He focused mainly on education and parenting approach. Both however, accepted that past was important and has great influence on personality, but Adler went further and said that present was also important as much as the past. Unlike Freud, Adler viewed life positively. He perceived the inferior feelings as normal feelings because due to the inferiority individuals could become creativity that can help one to motivate and create something new. Another main difference between these two is that Freud focused on unconscious while Adler focused on conscious, he said, “you make your story because you make your own choices.”
It was very interesting that this therapy mainly focused simply on encouraging clients. Since Adler focused......

...Gene Therapy
SCI115 Introduction to Biology
Professor Cassie Prisco
November 28, 2014
Gene therapy is a rapidly growing field of medicine in which genes are introduced into the body to treat diseases. It is the name applied to the treatment of inherited diseases by corrective genetic engineering of the dysfunctional genes. It is part of a broader field called genetic medicine, which involves the screening, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hereditary conditions in humans. The results of genetic screening can pinpoint a potential problem to which gene therapy can sometimes offer a solution.
Genes represent the genetic material that organisms pass on from generation to generation. Therefore, genes are responsible for controlling hereditary traits and provide the basic biological code or blueprint for living organisms. Genes produce protein such as hair and skin as well as proteins that are important for the proper functioning of organs. Mutated or defective genes often cause disease. The purpose of gene therapy is to replace a defective gene with a normal copy of the same gene in attempt to restore function.
Initially conceived as an approach for treating inherited diseases, like cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease, the scope of potential gene therapies has grown to include treatments for cancers, arthritis, and infectious diseases. Although gene therapy testing in humans has rapidly advanced, in general, the field of gene therapy has proven to be......

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Assignment 2: Gene Therapy
Brandi Williams
Professor Mintesinot Jiru
Introduction to Biology SCI 115
August 31, 2014
Gene Therapy Technology
What is gene therapy? According to the "Genetics Home Reference", gene therapy is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. Gene therapy has many factors that allows them to work or sometimes not. Below I will explain gene therapy's importance and how it works.
Gene therapy is a treatment that involves altering the genes inside your body's cells to stop disease. (MayoClinic Staff) Also, gene therapy replaces a faulty gene or adds a new gene in an attempt to cure disease or improve the the body's ability to fight disease. Disease can be caused by the genes not working properly, but there's a wide range of disease including, cancer, cysyic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia and AIDS, that gene therapy holds promise for treating. Also, researchers are still standing how and when to use gene therapy. (MayoClinic Staff)
Social and ethical implications of gene therapy is complex and still has underlying concerns that need to be evaluated before being out on the market. Only through clinical trials gene therapy had been tested and successful, but because scientists and doctors not knowing the effectiveness of gene therapy; there are still precautions. For this reason, even though it may have been successful and beneficial for others, some mau not be as fortunate and that will cause another set of......

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My preferred theoretical orientation is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The main assumption of CBT is that events and situations in life do not cause emotional problems (e.g., guilt or depression); rather problems are due to irrational beliefs and perceptions about the situations (Corey, 2009). The goals of CBT focus on correcting the client’s automatic and self-defeating thoughts, which should ultimately help them to develop a more adaptive philosophy of life (Corey, 2009). I like that this approach focuses on challenging and changing the client’s cognitive distortions, core beliefs, automatic thoughts, and schemas. Another positive aspect is that this approach focuses on the cognitive triad, which consists of how one views the self, the world, and the future (Corey, 2009). Furthermore, CBT places responsibility on the individual to put insight into action by making changes to their thoughts and behaviors, both in and out of the therapy sessions (Corey, 2009). In order to bring about change, the client needs to understand that the primary source of difficulty lies in how they perceive events based on their belief system (Kellogg & Young, 2008). In general, CBT is a structured approach and includes techniques and outcomes (e.g., behavior changes) that are easily measured, which provides it with a substantial amount of empirical support (Corey, 2009).
The primary focus of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is to help change the way the a person thinks and what......

...Introduction
Gestalt therapy, which was founded by Fritz and Laura Perls in the 1940s, teaches the therapists and their clients the phenomenological awareness method, where feeling, perceiving and acting are differentiated from interpreting and rearranging the pre-existing attitudes. Gestalt therapists and clients’ dialogue, thus communicating their phenomenological perspectives, and their differences in perceptions form the basis and focus of experimentation and continued dialogue. The desired outcome of the therapy process is for the client to become aware of their actions, how they are acting, and the ways they can change their actions and learn to accept and appreciate themselves. Here, the emphasis is mainly on the process rather than the content of the therapy, that is, what is happening rather than what is being discussed. Gestalt therapy was mainly considered for adults. However, Violet Oaklander (2007) says that it is also suitable to be applied to children since it involves the body and the senses, all of which fit the therapeutic works with the children.
The purpose of this paper is to formulate a response in the manner a Gestalt therapist would work with children of ages between 4 and 12. Here, the general and Gestalt literature is explored, synthesized and evaluated on working with this particular population, their specific needs and particular ethical challenges that may emerge while working with them. A comparison is offered on how different modalities with......

...Assess sociological views of the impact of government policies and laws on family life.
There are many different views of how government policies and laws affect family life among different sociological theorists. Some view government policies as positive whereas some see the impact as positive.
Feminists argue that many government policies promote the patriarchal family and reinforces the women’s economic dependence on a man. Policies such as tax benefits and maternity leave are seen as negative policies as they promote the ideology of women being the main childcares in a relationship. Women are entitled to 9 months maternity leave whereas men are only able to receive 2 weeks paid paternity. Consequently, this means women are forced to be the parent that stays at home to look after the child as a couple would not be able to have financial stability if the man stayed at home for 9 months without pay. The new right also do not support these policies however for different reasoning. Feminists have a negative view on policies that insinuate that they have to care for their elders, as they believe the role of a caregiver to the sick and elderly should be shared between men and women equally and should be a women’s obligation. Although feminists are against laws that enforce the inequality between men and women they support policies that allow women to be independent from a patriarchal relationship, for example the divorce reform act and working tax credits. The divorce......

...conﬂict and to life in general. Different views
of personality allow researchers and counselors to funnel large amounts of information about
an individual into smaller, more digestible terminology that offer useful descriptions of
behavior and functioning.
• An important aspect of personality is that it tends to be relatively stable over time. A
common misperception is you can change personality traits if you don’t like them. While one
might achieve slight adjustments in personality over time, personality traits are largely stable
throughout life.
• For couples, this means a person should not try or expect his/her partner to change their
personality traits. Relationship skills can be learned and improved. An individual can learn to
communicate or manage ﬁnances more effectively. But an extrovert should not be expected
to somehow become an introvert. Couples who set out to change one another’s personality
will embark on a journey of frustration.
• No matter how much a couple has in common, it is impossible two individuals would
think, feel, and behave in exactly the same ways. Not only are there gender and background
differences, but every personality is unique. Exploring personality similarities and differences
can be a fascinating and fun process. There are no “right” or “wrong” combination of
personality traits for a successful relationship, but some couples face more challenges as they
have very different preferences in their approach to life.
SCO PE & T......

...RUNNING HEAD: ONLINE THERAPY
Online Therapy
Technology in Human Service
The value of online therapy varies because of specific reasons and treatments therapy is utilized and type of services needed for particular clients. Online therapy can be very beneficial to those who cannot access transportation or might be homebound. This makes online therapy convenient and opens flexible scheduling but if you are not disabled or homebound it may be difficult to resolve issues faced due to non face to face interaction. Sometimes it is better to be face to face with someone to sort out obstacles because the therapist can read body language, facial expression, and vocal signals. These are very important to understand what the therapist is working with and how they can help you. Face to face encounter also gives the client a preview of what potential the therapist has and what kind of relationship bonding will take place. While evaluating online therapy three sites where reviewed; the content of each site and the site interaction for therapy will be discussed. During this discussion the view of state regulatory boards and advantages and disadvantages of online therapy will be analyzed.
People are capable of genuine change because there is always an explanation of human thought and motivation. Online therapy seems to provide motivation to those who prefer to be in the comfort of their home for a number of...

...is a pluralistic society in which people from different backgrounds, who have different views live autonomously, tolerating other people's beliefs and values.
John Mill, initiated the theory of fallibility, which claims that as humans we make mistakes not only at an individual level but also as a government. In consequence, one could never have the ability to claim that his morality is superior over another as he might be wrong, and in a tolerant society, we have the right to be autonomous. To promote a particular lifestyle would could show intolerance towards another lifestyle.
For example, if the government was to promote the sharia law from islam, everyone in the society including doubtful Muslims shall be killed.
Conservatives on the other hand could argue that not promoting a right way to live could result in a morally spineless society. In addition religious leaders say that it would lead to a damnation so there should be a clear set of moral values.
However promoting a certain lifestyle could have no outcome unless people are brainwashed and this would on,y last until they are kept at that mental state. For example a person could be encouraged to attend religious activities to save his soul and install morality within them, but what if the person doesn't have any religious beliefs, it would be a waste.
In conclusion, a tolerant society should not promote a particular way of life as superior, mainly because it will result I intolerance towards others and it could......